The firing of the top US and NATO forces' commander in Afghanistan is the latest confirmation that the Afghan Curse will make Americans settle for "a Vietnam Syndrome"; now that the war in Afghanistan has officially surpassed Vietnam as the longest imperial war by America, the "Afghan Curse" will consume David Petraeus, much like it consumed McChrystal, and before him, and David McKiernan, the first general to be relieved from…

The news media reported last Friday 18 June 2010 that India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed, nuclear-capable, ballistic missile Prithvi-II with a range of 350 km.

The Russian Supreme Court heard last Tuesday an appeal of 12 Muslims activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir from the republic of Tatarstan. In 2007, they were tried in a kangaroo court reminiscent of the old Stalinist Inquisition era (not unlike the infamous Guantanamo Bay camp X ray), where the prosecutors' sole evidence was some secret evidence and, believe it or not, Islamic literature.